[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: XLink a special case in the self-describing Web?

  • From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
  • To: srn@t... (Steven R. Newcomb)
  • Date: Sat, 20 May 100 19:23:31 -0400 (EDT)

Re: XLink a special case in the self-describing Web?
Steven R. Newcomb scripsit:

> (It would work quite well if a namespace declaration
> referred, in addition to the domain name itself, to a dated version of
> the document (!) that constitutes the table of all extant domain names
> and their owners, and if the database of all domain names and their
> owners at any point in time could be queried in much the same rapid,
> universal way that is today used to resolve domain names to IP
> addresses.)

For this very reason, all W3C-assigned namespaces (with certain
grandfathered exceptions) are of the form "http://www.w3.org/yyyy/..."
where yyyy is a date.

Of course the total state of the DNS is not represented in any one
place, which would hardly be practical.

> Again, it's just my neurosis, if you like, that names have to be
> meaningful in order to be useful.  All these XML Namespace names seem
> to me about as useful as leaves blowing in the wind.  Information that
> I create today, using XML Namespaces, is far too subject to loss of
> value, because of the high probability that the leaves will blow away.
> I don't choose to invest my own life in the creation of information
> that will not have the power to last.  I can't recommend such
> practices to my customers, either, regardless of the popularity of XML
> Namespaces.  Ars longa, vita brevis, etc.

Then work hard on getting the FPI registration process repaired,
so that there is a stable alternative.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
	Yes, I know the message date is bogus.  I can't help it.
		--me, on far too many occasions

***************************************************************************
This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers.
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev
List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/
***************************************************************************

PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
 

Stylus Studio has published XML-DEV in RSS and ATOM formats, enabling users to easily subcribe to the list from their preferred news reader application.


Stylus Studio Sponsored Links are added links designed to provide related and additional information to the visitors of this website. they were not included by the author in the initial post. To view the content without the Sponsor Links please click here.

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.